Seventy-nine-year-old Sayeed, who was airlifted from Srinagar on December 24 and admitted to AIIMS, continues to be in the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital.

Doctors attending to him said there was no change in his condition from Saturday.

OROP correction

A delegation of ex-servicemen met Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and submitted a memorandum seeking corrections in the One Rank One Pension (OROP) notification as their protest on the issue entered its 203rd day.

A five-member delegation met the FM and told him that the actual OROP has not been implemented.

“The notification issued has serious flaws and we requested him for corrections and granting of the actual scheme as per the approved definitions,” retired General Satbir Singh said.

Political risks

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal said his government went ahead with the odd-even plan despite apprehensions that the move may have an adverse impact on the party's vote bank.

“Around one-and-a-half months ago when the odd-even plan was being deliberated upon, apprehensions were raised about the rolling out of the scheme, Delhi’s public will be so disappointed with us that we will lose the 2017 MCD election but the scheme was important as there was an urgent need to address the traffic and pollution problems,” Kejriwal said.

Congress smells a rat

The Congress has accused the Modi government of subverting investigations against the Naveen Patnaik government in chit-fund and mining scams in Odisha to get the BJD’s support in Parliament, and sought Supreme Court-monitored probes into the cases.

Former Union minister Jairam Ramesh alleged that a deal was struck between the BJD supremo and Prime Minister Narendra Modi at their secret meeting after which CBI slowed down its probe in the chit-fund scam.

Shaky Pakistan policy

Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad said it was not the time to attack the government over its handling of the Pathankot terror attacks, and added that there was a need to question the government’s inconsistent Pakistan policy.

The UPA, in its tenure, had faced severe criticism from the BJP during similar incidents of terror.